Articles and Covenants, circa April 1830, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 20]
Source Note
“Articles and Covenants,” [, Seneca Co., NY, ca. Apr. 1830, though parts may have been received as early as ca. summer 1829]. Version copied [ca. June 1831] in Gilbert, Notebook, [1]–[11]; handwriting of ; Revelations Collection, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Revelation, 27 Feb. 1833 [D&C 89].
even as many as shall hereafter receive [this] work either to faith and righteousness or to the hardness of hearts in unbelief to their own condemnation for the Lord God hath spoken it for we the of the Church have heard and bear witness to the world of the glorious majesty on high to whom be glory forever, Amen.
Wherefore by these things we know there is a God in heaven who is Infinite & eternal from Everlasting to Everlasting, the same unchangeable God the maker of Heaven & Earth & all things that in them is & that he has all power & all s & all understanding & that he created man male & female & after his own image & in his own likeness created he them and that he gave unto the children of men a that they should love & serve him, the only being whom they should worship, but by the transgression of these holy laws men became sensual & devilish & became fallen men, therefore the Almighty God gave his only begotten son as it is written in those which has been given of him that he suffered temptations but gave no heed unto them, that he was crucified & raised again the third day. [p. [3]]